Have you ever been that kind of situation that you decide to do something but you just find something more fun so you decide to put your work aside. The consequence is you spend time on your “fun” activities for a long time and when you near to the deadline you realized that you actually did nothing in the past of time. You might even feel self-condemned because you wasted your time to play and your work is still not done. This is what people often called the procrastination and I believe that most people have this problem. Although I do not want to admit but I really is this kind of person, so I talk to my self and warn myself that I need to change. Now I am going to tell you what are the effective ways to break this bad habit. First you need to know: What is procrastination? “Procrastination is the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time. In order for a behavior to be classified as procrastination: it must be counterproductive, needless, and delaying.” Second we need to make sure: Why people will have procrastination? I had read a lot of articles about this question and the answer can be anything. Someone think they don’t have motivation to do it so they put to the deadline. Someone think they still have a lot of time so they choose to start later... But procrastinators are made not born it cuts across all domains of their life. Finally I made a summary: I found a suitable reason why people have this bad habit is actually attributed to the lack of self- control. The self-control ability is a person to control their own feelings and behavior. One of the fundamental points of the distinction between animals is that people are thoughtful, so that they can control their feelings and actions sensibly according to certain purposes. So when you lack the ability to control yourself your own behavior will not listen to your brain. Give a very simple example when you know that you have a work need to be handed in tomorrow, and you start thinking about to doing your homework. But you know your favorite TV program is start you know you shouldn’t watch but you can’t say no to that. When you sit down to put your attention on the TV you actually have no power to stop it anymore. The fact is if you just going to do your work and you have nice work done you can still have time to watch your TV program. The point is here we should figure out how can we say no to those enticement and how can we develop our ability on self-control especially the way to get rid of procrastination. The ways to deal it is actually not hard at all. The key to get rid of procrastination is a small change (the first step) that can bring big changes. I give an example to illustrate: in the winter morning to get up is hard but if you just sit up and pick up your clothes in that moment you will put your other clothes on immediately and you won’t just stay at your bed and play in your phone until the last minute of the school. You just need to push you self a little bit and persuade yourself to take the first step , in your subconscious you have changed your mind (you do not realize) so during this time you subconsciously think that you do not delay anymore and you will have impulse to keep doing. As long as you insist on every day to convince myself to take this small step, after some days you can develop the habit of doing things on time. Then you do not need to worry about the procrastination anymore. When you really doing this way, you are more close to be a better person.
Jennifer C
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Dan
12/6/2017 01:42:12 pm
Procrastination is a good opportunity for self-reflection. Yes, it can show when we are being lazy, but it could also mean that we just don't want to do the thing we are putting off. If we don't want to do it, we ask ourselves, WHY don't we want to do it? Maybe we do want to do it and we are just lazy, but maybe we don't find it valuable. Maybe we would rather do something else because we find that thing MORE valuable. If we are forced to do something we don't find valuable, why are we doing it? Is that reason good enough to get us to do it?
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